In hot and arid regions, working day-foraging ants experience loss of life by desiccation, so the means to obtain the shortest route back again to the nest cuts down that threat. Renowned myrmecologist E. O. Wilson wrote a brief tale, "Trailhead" in 2010 for The New Yorker magazine, which describes the life and loss of life of an ant-queen and the increase and fall of her colony, from an ants' point of check out.